This is addressed to all phone and other device users who do not back up their personal data.
Please remember that at any time, you are ONE SECOND away from losing all your personal data. That’s how long it takes to drop a phone and for it to be so damaged as to be beyond repair and the data on it beyond retrieval. Similarly, device failure may occur, with the same consequence.
Guests often post questions here asking us how they can retrieve several years’ worth of photos, or how to access data on which they rely for conducting their business, or how to retrieve many lost Contacts and their email addresses and phone numbers, and other personal data in general, all of which is lost because their phones are - suddenly and without warning - dropped or otherwise accident-damaged, or simply fail. It is sometimes possible, at great expense, for specialists to retrieve data from such phones; but not always, and even if you have the money and are prepared to spend it on such attempts, relying on that as a backup is a mad gamble, and more to the point, unnecessary.
That is why it is A FAIRLY GOOD IDEA to make at least one backup of all your personal data. It costs either nothing, or certainly very much less than expensive and uncertain forensic retrieval methods, and is easy to do.
Should you decide that it MAY just be worth considering, see this Ambassador Guide on the subject:
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...tral.com/showthread.php?t=499341&share_type=t
Of course, you don’t have to make backups, but bear in mind that if you don’t, there is very little that Android Central members can do to help you if you do lose your data. If you decide not to back up, you must be content to remain one second away from losing everything.
Please remember that at any time, you are ONE SECOND away from losing all your personal data. That’s how long it takes to drop a phone and for it to be so damaged as to be beyond repair and the data on it beyond retrieval. Similarly, device failure may occur, with the same consequence.
Guests often post questions here asking us how they can retrieve several years’ worth of photos, or how to access data on which they rely for conducting their business, or how to retrieve many lost Contacts and their email addresses and phone numbers, and other personal data in general, all of which is lost because their phones are - suddenly and without warning - dropped or otherwise accident-damaged, or simply fail. It is sometimes possible, at great expense, for specialists to retrieve data from such phones; but not always, and even if you have the money and are prepared to spend it on such attempts, relying on that as a backup is a mad gamble, and more to the point, unnecessary.
That is why it is A FAIRLY GOOD IDEA to make at least one backup of all your personal data. It costs either nothing, or certainly very much less than expensive and uncertain forensic retrieval methods, and is easy to do.
Should you decide that it MAY just be worth considering, see this Ambassador Guide on the subject:
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...tral.com/showthread.php?t=499341&share_type=t
Of course, you don’t have to make backups, but bear in mind that if you don’t, there is very little that Android Central members can do to help you if you do lose your data. If you decide not to back up, you must be content to remain one second away from losing everything.
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